Drawing Personality Test

What do your drawings say about your personality? Find out here.

The interpretations of drawings is closely related to those in handwriting analysis. Many of the same principles are used -- the way the page is filled, level of detail, types of strokes, proportions, accuracy and much more. From all of this it is possible to provide a personality profile.

Drawings can reveal feelings, influences and interests -- the artist's inner emotional state and development. When used in conjunction with handwriting analysis it can either confirm a personality profile, or reveal traits not evident in the handwriting. Analysis of a person's drawings is also a common practice used in child psychology. Tests like the House-Person-Tree test or the Draw a Person test help the psychologist gain an understanding of the child's mental and emotional state.

Asking a subject to draw a picture also presents a maximum of ambiguity for the subject. Whereas tests that present a stimulus card which does not change over time, having the subject create a picture presents the subject with a completely blank field onto which they are asked to draw and project. Every subject will draw a tree, but every tree will differ. The result is a collection of projective material organized around standard themes and freedom from stimulus bias.